mikeaz123 said:
One collector and I were trying to figure out how many were struck originally, it couldn't have been that many. The prints were reused for the 1980(?) re release, so they took a further beating then.
According to the info Mike Verta got, around 200 prints in total were struck, only around 10-15 prints of those were complete or was in any viewable condition after their bad mistreatment after Technicolor closed their business. Apparently none of them survived the butchering that took place for the 1981 re-release where they spliced in the revised opening.
You have a real gem there, treat it with love.